Dwight School - Scroll Yearbook (New York, NY)

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Your Camera Loosen Up! Don't iBe So Bashful By MABEL SCACHERI. People are strange creatures. Shutterbugs are especially fstrange, and sometimes I think the junior grade fans are the hardest of all to understand. One thing sure does puzzle me, jand that is to learn how surprised you younger shuttertrlp- lpers are when you find that I take an interest in your own 'personal exploits with your cameras. Take the case of a high school senior whose photo-' graphic skill I commented on recently in a Friday column, Did I find out about him be- cause he wrote to me? No, I - got the tip from somebody lelse. But young Edward evi- ldently received quite a charge when he read the column, and! I got a very nice appreciative! ?1etter from him. 1 i Now he tells me that the only photographic book he ever read or owned was that Sca- cheri job, The Fun of Photog- ,raphy, now out of print. He :wants to show me the high school year book for which he ,is shooting pictures, when it comes out. Of course I'll be interested in seeing his work in this hook.

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Your Camera Youth Is Expe On Cat Pictures By MABEL .-.AV.V.. fi SCACHERI. You can imagine how delighted I was to hear about t 7-year-old camera fan whose c ig cats. There is a rumor an Y E A club contest, only cat picture word of truth in it. But there is plenty of truth 1 the reports of the success- il animal pictures made by sung Edward Gewiss, son of lr. and Mrs. Harry Gewiss, 342 Watson Ave. He started ith a box camera, but about yur years ago he got an Ar- us C-4, recently got a DeJur Jeedlight outfit, and he has is own darkroom at home. He president of the camera club : the Dwight School for Boys id is busy making pictures rr the year book. His interest in photograph- g cats came about. quite mply. His cat-loving mother 'eds strays, and Edward gets quick flash shot. Someone aves a cute waif of a kitten 1 her home and, before she kes it to the Bide-a-Wee Shel- r, Edward makes a picture hich wins the prize in the inter quarterly publication of ide-a-Wee. I like to photograph any iimal, says Edward, but I ink cats make more funny ces. You can tell what they -e thinking by the look they ve you. I got quite an amus- g' picture of eight puppies at gas station near here, too. No, I don't expect to take i photography as a profes- on. I want to be a surgeon. ?rhaps I will study at Colum- a. I do expect to keep up iotography as a hobby, of msc. Camera clubs looking for ight young photographers as -w members should take ate. Edward thinks he will ay with the 35mm size oft mera as the best for candids, hief interest is in photograph- iong the camera clubs tstarted graphersl that, when I judge dis runtled landscape photo s stand any chance at all. Not and develops it in D-76. He uses a Sun Ray enlarger and prints on Varigam with those 10 filters. When he has to shoot in poor light, he uses one of the high speed films, of course. I asked Edward if he went in for color slides, and he said no, he thought it takes more skill to shoot good black-and- whites. See there! More wis- dom in some of these young heads than you find among the color-crazy adults. nd quick shooting. He likesl use Plus-X when possible' X3

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qwqqruv www mv was w-fur.-wr-wif' Y' ii ww:-wwsmrwwwn HEADMASTER'S MESSAGE The year 1959 will be remembered for several varied phenornena. Number one, and most important to you, is your graduation from Dwight School. Number two, it marked the beginning of the race between the great powers for control of outer space, with the advent of the Sputnik, Moonnik, and our own Atlas and jupiter missiles. Third, and most important to your graduates, was the birth of another phenomenon known as Beatniks, variously described as a generation of individuals beaten by the society in which we live. , All of us at Dwight, who have been concerned with your prepa- ration for college, sincerely hope that we have given you the strength and stamina to compete successfully with the conditions you will meet. We are certain that Beatniks are quitters, who will not survive because of a lack of self-discipline. Your own success will inspire you to keep up your courage, spirit and determination to succeed. 1 X, ,. . 1 J' lf? ' 1Jf:If'.'...,.. -.. 1 . .WW